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Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop
- Country: United States
- Visa type: H-2A
- Job ID: (Open on offer list)
- Employer name: Confidential
- Employees needed: 3
- E-mail (employer): Confidential
- E-mail (agent): Confidential
- Phone: Confidential
- Agent phone: Confidential
- Working hours per week: 36
- Wage: 15.06 USD / Hour
- OFLC Certification: ACCEPTED - PENDING RECRUITMENT
- Start date: 12/31/2025
- End date: 10/14/2026
- Process date: 11/23/2025 21:00:00
- Submit date: Confidential
- Offer description:
Workers will perform all tasks related to the planting and establishment of the watermelon crop, as assigned by the supervisor, with duties changing based on weather and crop stage. Primary duties include: manual and mechanical transplanting of seedlings into beds (requiring extensive stooping, bending, and walking), laying/retrieving plastic mulch, installing/maintaining irrigation/drip tape systems, manual weeding, and using hand tools (hoes, shovels). Hay: workers will perform duties related hay production. This includes operating farm equipment (tractors, balers, mowers, rakes, loaders) for tillage, planting, cultivating, and harvesting various types of hay. Duties also involve loading, stacking, and storing bales. Workers must be able to perform extensive manual tasks, including frequent lifting up to 60 lbs, walking, stooping, and working long hours in various weather conditions. Qualifying workers may occasionally assist with moving trucks, tractors, and operating forklifts within the field. General Maintenance: Workers on physical work restrictions or when harvesting work is not available may be required to perform miscellaneous clean-up work on work site property, on structures utilized in the work site operation, and on housing for harvesting workers. Such clean-up activities include preparing land for planting crops, loading/unloading supplies, sprouting, pruning, and painting of trees; debris, weed, and vine removal; irrigation repair, fence repair; housing and structure cleaning and repair. The worker in order to perform this kind of work must be able to work outside for at least 6 hours a day in all kinds of weather and be in a possession of the requisite physical strength and endurance, working quickly and skillfully with their hands repeatedly, the employer will provide the tools necessary (if applicable) to perform the described job duties without charge to the worker. Employer may deduct the reasonable cost of damages and/or replacement of tools and/or equipment if such repair or replacement results from willful neglect or gross negligence after the damage has occurred and after gaining the employee's written authorization to make the deduction. Employees may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available, there is a possibility that available work hours will be in excess of 20% of the hours offered but they are not guaranteed, the worker is not required to work more than the stated daily hours in the contract and/or on a worker's Sabbath or federal holidays Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer’s control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season. If workers request a leave of absence during the contract period, if the worker has been offered an opportunity to work, the hours will be deducted from the hours offered under the ETA-790 for the purposes of the three-quarter guarantee. A copy of the work contract or a copy of the ETA 790 in lieu of a work contract, and any modifications, will be provided to the H-2A worker no later than the time at which the worker applies for the Visa, or to a worker in corresponding employment, no later than on the day work commences. For an H-2A worker going from an H-2A employer to a subsequent H-2A employer, a copy of the contract will be provided no later than the time an offer of employment is made by the subsequent H-2A employer.